Bethlehem: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Program of Assistance to the Palestinian people convened a training workshop on means of effective responding to AIDS through development of leadership skills of Palestinian community leaders. Proceedings of the workshop took place in Bethlehem (Occupied Palestine) from 5 to 7 July 2010 in cooperation with UNDP HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS).

Bethlehem: UNDP Program of Assistance to the Palestinian people convened a training workshop for more than twenty Palestinian media professionals on means of effective responding to AIDS as a developmental challenge facing the Arab region.

Jeddah – 17 June 2010: For three consecutive days from 14 to 16 June 2010, the Charity Association for AIDS Patients in Saudi Arabia organized, in cooperation with the HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS), a training workshop under the title of "Leadership for Limiting Risky Behaviors among Youths".

Ain El Sokna ( Egypt): On 4-6 May 2010, the Cairo-based UNDP HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS) held its 7th Annual HIV Focal Points and Projects Officers Meeting for the Arab States in Egypt.

Cairo – April 15th 2010: Members of Chahama’s Steering Committee discussed the strategic plan of the network for 2010 and 2011, the most significant achievements of the network, and the challenges it faced in the past two years. They also addressed future challenges and ways to overcome it. This meeting took place in Cairo (April 10th-12th 2010).

A successful response to HIV/AIDS is one that needs the true involvement of the whole community acting together as one force complementing and supporting each other. A key influential actor in this Arab community is the religious leaders; their impact is one that cannot be neglected. They have legitimacy, a durable presence and even more than that; they help shape the social values and norms of people ...

The second event conducted in Algiers, Algeria 29-31 Oct. 2007 is part of a series of sub-regional workshops. Organized by UNDP/HARPAS in partnership with UNDP Algeria, ILO, and UNHCR, it gathered 60 parliamentarians from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It built up on a previous initiative organized in November 2005, "The Legal Framework for HIV/AIDS ...

HIV/AIDS impacts are likely to concentrate on young adults in their most productive years. Thus, AIDS is projected as having the potential to become the second major cause of death among adults of working age in the world - including the Arab world - posing a serious economic threat. The epidemic is eroding productivity just at the time when developing countries, including most of the Arab countries, need to become more competitive to cope with rapid globalization...

From the 8th to the 11th of September 2007, HARPAS has organized a regional training workshop co-facilitated by UNDP and the Reuters Foundations employing UNDP's transformative leadership and development enhancement methodologies that have generated highly effective responses to the epidemic in the region, in synergy with the Media professional expertise of the Reuters Foundation...

Women in the Arab world are often discriminated against and facing numerous violations of their human rights, as identified in the Arab Human Development Report 2002 women's empowerment is one of the three deficits the Arab World is confronted with and if progress in the region is to be achieved, addressing gender inequalities is definitely one area where UNDP is targeting its efforts...